Eleven members of a robbers’ gang which used to target victims along highways carrying cash have been busted and five motorbikes used for crimes and money robbed from the victims have been recovered, said DIG Santosh Kumar Singh while speaking with media persons on Friday.
Singh said for the past few days bike borne miscreants have targeted victims who work with finance companies and other companies and were involved in collecting and depositing big amount in areas of city, nearby areas of the city, Rajgarh and Sehore. The miscreants would hit the victim with rod or stick or would throw chili powder to overpower the victim and would escape with money.
The latest victims was Pradeep Kaurav who was attacked with wooden stick by the gang member on August 31 near Bakania railway crossing under Khajuri police station area and escaped with a bag carrying Rs 40,000 cash, one mobile and identity card of the victim. In another incident Shrawan Kumar was attacked by gang members near Nipania under Eithkehdi police station road on September 1 and escaped with Rs 50,000 after throwing chili powder in his eyes.
In the Eithkedhi robbery when the miscreants were chased they escaped leaving bike bearing registration number MP04-NX-3337 and based on the details the gang members were nabbed.
The bike was registered in the name of Gabbar alias Sultan (22) and when he detained he revealed the details of the gang. Ten out of 11 members were nabbed by the police during the investigation.
The nabbed accused were identified as Gabbar, Rizwan Khan, Chandraprakash Parmar, Mohsin Ali, Shenhshah, Pintu Prajapati and Ajay Thakur of Sehore, Shailesh Yadav of Bhopal , Ballram Soni, Rajesh Meena and Vinod Meena of Rajgarh while the absconding accused was identified as Kamal Naagar. Rajesh used to work as collection agent for companies and was aware of the collection of money from different villages.